adjective
- having many cracks, fissures, or chinks
Usage: technical; botanical
Examples
- The rimose bark of the old oak tree provided shelter for insects.
- After the drought, the soil became rimose and difficult to cultivate.
- The botanist noted the rimose surface of the dried seed pod.
- Rimose leaves are characteristic of plants adapted to arid conditions.
- The rimose texture of the rock face made climbing treacherous.
- Scientists studied the rimose patterns in the dried mud samples.